K. D. Lang Quotes

I love what I do. I made my first record in '57. I don't think I'll ever get tired of making records and writing songs and singing and being in the music business.

I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do.

I knew I always wanted to sing.

Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work.

So you know, my plan was that I was going to make records, and be a rock star. And that's really what I wanted to do. And I sang from the time I was very young.

I just sing and write songs and wear what I want. It's quite a good job really. If I wanted to I suppose I could become more of a fashion icon, but singing is my thing.

I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.

I been doing music my whole life.

I'd rather be a musician than a rock star.

Honestly, if acting never worked out, I would have done music.

Who told you I was a musician?

What I always wanted to do was to be a rock star.

One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you're a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I'm working on new stuff for a new album right now.

I know I could never be in a pop band. I honestly have an appalling voice.

Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.

I never saw myself as a singer; I never really thought I had the voice for it.

I sing some songs but don't expect me to release an album anytime soon.

I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.

I've only ever wanted to be a singer; I never wanted to be famous.

A lot of people don't know that I'm a singer - that's my thing, really.

I think it's quite tricky for actors to release albums. It's difficult, because I'm an actor, you know, I'm not a musician. I love singing, but I don't have a big repertoire of songs that I've written; I mean, I've got a few, but nothing that I could fill an album with, and I don't want to do it just for the sake of it.

My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it. I felt a calling.

I wouldn't mind doing Broadway, but I am definitely trying to get a album out there first.

I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, 'OK, this is what I'm going to do for a living and I'm going to be Weird Al.'

I was pretty young when I decided I wanted to, well, more so be a singer. I started singing in church in my hometown, East Orange, New Jersey. I knew when I was about five or six that I wanted to be a performer.